Combination-garment.



No. 7l2,763. A Patented Nov. 4, I902.

J.'H. BURT.

COMBINATION GARMENT.

Application flled Jan. 13. 1902.)

(No Modal.)

UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BURT, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TQ COMBOSHIRT-COAT CQMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COMBINATION GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Let/0ers Patent No. 712,763, dated November4, 1902. Application fi1ed January 13,1902. Serial No. 39,393. (Nomodel.i

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES II. BURT, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Springfield, in the connty of Hampde and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and nse fnl Garment, the same beinganimprovement of an invention set forth in my application for UnitedStates Letters Patent filed September 4:, 1900, Serial No. 28,988, andallowed November 16, 1901, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garments, in which certainfragmentary portions or parts are so eombined and nnited With a coat asto prodnee a complete article of wearingapparel, as hereinafter fullydescribed, and especially pointed out in the olaims; and the object ofmy invention is to' produce a simple, light, and inexpensive garmentparticularly nsefnl for service in bot weather, whioh has the appearanceof a coat, vest, and shirt, but which is free from the disoomfortattending the wearing of so many separate and complete garments duringthe heated season. This improvement serves a double pnrpose in providingfor the oomfort of the wearer and in giving hini the appearanoe of beingfully dressed, two considerations that appeal to many With almost eqnalforce.

A fnrther improvement consists of a peoul Fiure 1 is a frohtviewof m 7arment ortions ofthe coat-and-vest member being 91evated to more clearlydiselose the construction; Fig. 2, a seetionai view of said garment,showing the constructions thereof, inelnding my improved neekband; Fig.3, a front view of the abdominal-shirt member detaohed, and Fig. 4: afront view of the vest and ohest-shirt members detached.

. Similarletters referto similarpartsthroughout the several views.

The vest, abdominal-shirt, and chest-Shirt portions will be referd 170.as members, the singnlar being sed for each division, althongh, as inthe case of the two former, each division consists of two parts, becansethe parts are ni1ited when on the wearer by suitable fasteningmeans andpractieally constitute one member, or said parts might be perman entlyfastened together, of course, and detaehably conneeted at one side withthe coat. It is believed, however, that this last arrangement Wonid notprove to be a satisfactory one for practical pnrposes.

A eoat ais employed ofany snitable construction so far as its generalh1ake-up is concerned, and it has attached thereto the vest memberb, theabdominal-shirtmemberc, and the chest-shirt member 61. The front edgesof the coata are not designed to be bronght together, but. are normallyseparated for a distance correspondinp: snbstantially With that whiohseparates the front edges of an ordinary ooat when loft unbnttoned.

The vest member b preferably comprises ,two comparatively narrow strips(best shown in Fig. 4) stitohed or otherwise attaohed at the outer edgesto the inside of the breast of the eoat a and buttoned or otherwisennited at the center.

The abdominal-shrt member c preferably comprises two depending fiapsstitched or otherwise fastened at their upper edges t0 theinside of thevest member 23 and of the coat 0.. When the member c s made as justdescribed, the overlapping edges of the parts are bnttoned together npand down the cen ter or nnited in some similar manner. This flap isdesigned to be tncked into the front of the tronsers when the garment isworn and not only serves to hold the front part of the garment in place,but aiso t0 conceal the and this member, With said fiap (1', is sewed orotherwise fastened to the inside of the vest; member 1) and the coat a,the stitches, if thread is nsed, being taken along the outer edges ofsai l member and the lower edge of the flan. 'lhe member (I is of propersize r0 fili LheV-shaped spaee above the vest member I) and ispreferably open in front and provided with lmbtonholes and buttons orother snitable means for fastening the nverlapping edges togebher overthe chest. The object 0f dividing Lhe garment; members over the chest,breast, and abdomen and providing closing means for the same instead ofrendering them detaehahle at one sde from the coat; is to inorease lhefacility with which the garment can be put on and taken off, also toenhance the hang and fit of the same.

I prefer to make the neckbandfdonble at the back, as shown in Fig. 2,leaving a pocket g between the innerthickness et cloth f and the outerthicknessf, in which latter a buttonhole is formed forthe reeeption ofthe back collar-stnd. This collar-stud is shown at h and is coneealedwith the lower part of the collar i ny the collar a of the Goal: a,which extends np aronnd the bac]; of the neokbandf. The collar a may 'beof any desired pattern.

I do not wish to be eonfined to any particnlar shape 01' size of coaband associated members, as changes in these particnlars and departnresin miner details of construction other than those hereinbefore alludedt0 may be made wibhout vioiating the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The eombination, in agarment, of acoat, and a chesb-shirt memberprovided with a neekband of double t.hickness of material at the back s0arranged as to form a holding means and a pockeb for t.he backcollar-stud,be- 10W the upper edges of said neckband and thecoat-collar, Lhe ehest-shirt member and neckband being secnrely attachedto the inside of the coat, snbstantiaily as set forth.

2. The combination, in a garment, of a coa, a vest member having itsouter edges attached to the inside of said coat, and a chestshirt memberprovided With a neckband of double thiokness of material s0 arranged asto form a holding means and a pocket for the baek collar-sbnd, below theupper edges of said neekband and thecoat-collar, and having a flapdepending from the back thereof, said shirt member and flan beingattached to the inside of said vesb member and coar, suhstantially asset; forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this speeification in the presenee oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. BURT. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

ADOLPH ENGEL, JOSEPA LED. ENGEL.

